Safety-razor



J. C. DUNHAM.

SAFETY RAZOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1920.

1,384,691 Patented July 12, 1921-.

UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

JOHN C. DURHAM, or GREENVIL E, orrro.

SAFETY-RAZOR,

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented July 12, 1921.

Application filedMay 26, 1920. Serial No. 384,300.

the blade. will be disposed at an oblique angle with respect t0 the longitudinal axis of the handle where upon downward pull of the handle the blade will be caused to travel with or against the grain of the beard, thereby severing the same and obvlating the 7 scraping effect produced by the usual safety razor.

Further, the invention provides a safety razor including a body or blade holder that can be set at any angle parallel to the surface of the human face and thereby dispose the cutting edge of the blade in position to cut with or against the grain of the heard.

It is also provided by the invention, a safety razor wherein the blade holder may be set at an oblique angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the handle, and wherein the handle is capable of adjustment toward and away from the blade holder.

My invention also provides a safety razor which is of comparatively simple construction and at the same time can be manufactured and sold at a nominal cost.

With the preceding and other objects and advantages as ma become apparent from the following disc osure the invention consists in the novel combination of elements, constructions and. arrangement of parts, operations and specific features to be hereinafter referred to and claimed, the invention being illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein,

igure 1 is a plan view of the razor in operative position, the dotted lines indicating the razor in relative adjusted positions.

Fig. 2 is a view of the razor artly in transverse cross section and part y in elevation, the handle being shown in dotted lines in its relative adjusted positions.

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2; and

Fig. 4 is a perspective of one of the elements embodied in the invention.

Referring in detail to the drawing, wherein like characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout ,the several views, the numeral 5 designates the blade holder in its entirety. This blade holder or head 5 is constructed from a length 'Of metal having a guard 6 fashioned at one side'thereof and from the inner end of which it is extended substantially obliquelyand then rearwardly at right-angles to the obliquely disposed part. This length is then transversely. curved and extended reversely to afford a blade supporting plate 7 which extends to the inner edge of the guard 6. Resilient clips 8 are formed at the opposite transverse edges of the Plate 7 and received in these clips and lying against the blade 7 is the cutting blade 9. A clamping plate 10 which is transversely bowed has its inner end hingedly connected with the head 5 adjacent the rear end thereof, the free end of this plate engaging the blade 9 in closed position as illustrated in Fig. 2 to retain this blade against movement.

The head 5 is provided with a central opening 11 above the plate 7 and loosely received in this opening is a stem 12, the inner end of which is formed with a head 13 and rigid with the stem 12 and arranged between the head 13 and the under face of the head 5 is a disk 14: provided with a plurality of spaced notches 15. The outer end of the stem 12 is formed with an ear 16 and disposed against this car 16 is a corresponding ear 17 formed upon one end of a handle 18. A bolt 19 passes transversely through the cars 16 and 17 and threaded upon this bolt is a wing nut 20 which retains the ears in binding engagement and thereby holds the handle 18 in any angular position with the bolt 19 as its axis, in other words the handle 18 may be adjusted toward or away from the head 5.

A pair of laterally disposed cars 21 formed upon the head 5 rearwardly of the stem 12 and pivoted between these cars is a latch element 22, one end of which extends through an opening 23 in the head 5 and terminates in a laterally disposed lug 24: engageable in any one of the openings 15 in the bolt or disk 14 and thereby holds or looks the head 5 in any position about the stem 12, thereby disposing the cutting edge of the blade 9 at an obliqueangle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the handle 18. A coil spring 25 is associated with the latch element 22 and normally projects...the

same into engagement with the disk 14.

From the disclosure it will be unani- 5 fest that I have provided a safety razor wherein the. head r,plate holder amayflbe adjusted to dispose the cutting edge of the blade at an angle with respect to'the pull or force acting on the handle, therebyim- 1 0g parting to the late a cutting 101'" "severing stroke instead 0 -scraping-as experienced in the usual 1 safety razor and which-usually irritates or breaks the skin.

It is to beinnderstood that the dtormof 1 m'y" invention hereinshown and described is 'to' be taken as a preferred 'exam'ple M the same, and that varlous changesyin the *construction, shape, size and arrangement of partsmay =be' resorted to without' departing from the spirit of the invention or thescope of the subjoined claims.

5-Having thns described my intention,

what I claim as new and desireto secure and ears and adapted for engagement in any one of the notches-to hold the head in any desired-positiomaboutits-axis. h

231m a safety razor,- abla'de'eaa'rying head provided *witheacentral opening in: its nppen-Wall, a-stem extending-loosely through the opening; handle carriedby one: end

of the stem, a locking element fixed to the "sterna'nfddisposed beneat 'theupperewall of the 'head; and a pivoted spring': nrged by thehhead a latch pivoted between the r latch element mounted on the upper -wall T of the head and engageable-in any one of i-the notches to'holdz the head in any" desired -position-aboutdts"axis.' a g JQHN: G5; 

